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C4X Discovery Holdings (LSE:C4XD) Interest Coverage : 2,206.00 (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is C4X Discovery Holdings Interest Coverage?

Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income by its Interest Expense. C4X Discovery Holdings's Operating Income for the six months ended in Jan. 2024 was £17.65 Mil. C4X Discovery Holdings's Interest Expense for the six months ended in Jan. 2024 was £-0.01 Mil. C4X Discovery Holdings's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 2,206.00. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Good Sign:

Ben Graham prefers companies' interest coverage to be at least 5. C4X Discovery Holdings PLC has enough cash to cover all of its debt. Its financial situation is stable.

The historical rank and industry rank for C4X Discovery Holdings's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:C4XD' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 470.6   Med: No Debt   Max: No Debt
Current: 470.6


LSE:C4XD's Interest Coverage is ranked better than
57.1% of 345 companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: 145.09 vs LSE:C4XD: 470.60

Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.


C4X Discovery Holdings Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for C4X Discovery Holdings's Interest Coverage can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Note: For Interest Coverage, "No debt" indicates no long-term debt. An indication of "No Debt" does not necessarily mean that the company has no long-term debt obligations; it could be due to missing data in the quarterly or annual report. Use caution when interpreting this information.

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C4X Discovery Holdings Interest Coverage Chart

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Competitive Comparison of C4X Discovery Holdings's Interest Coverage

For the Biotechnology subindustry, C4X Discovery Holdings's Interest Coverage, along with its competitors' market caps and Interest Coverage data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


C4X Discovery Holdings's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, C4X Discovery Holdings's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where C4X Discovery Holdings's Interest Coverage falls into.



C4X Discovery Holdings Interest Coverage Calculation

Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income (EBIT) by its Interest Expense:

If Interest Expense is negative and Operating Income is positive, then

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income /Interest Expense

Else if Interest Expense is negative and Operating Income is negative, then

The company did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

Else if Interest Expense is 0 and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation is 0, then

The company had no debt (1).


Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.

C4X Discovery Holdings's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Jul. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Jul. 2023, C4X Discovery Holdings's Interest Expense was £-0.02 Mil. Its Operating Income was £-13.41 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was £0.09 Mil.

C4X Discovery Holdings did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

C4X Discovery Holdings's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the six months ended in Jan. 2024, C4X Discovery Holdings's Interest Expense was £-0.01 Mil. Its Operating Income was £17.65 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was £0.01 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Jan. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Jan. 2024 )
=-1*17.648/-0.008
=2,206.00

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's Financial Strength is.


C4X Discovery Holdings  (LSE:C4XD) Interest Coverage Explanation

Ben Graham requires that a company has a minimum interest coverage of 5 with the companies he invested. If the interest coverage is less than 2, the company is burdened by debt. Any business slow or recession may drag the company into a situation where it cannot pay the interest on its debt.

Interest Coverage is an important factor when GuruFocus ranks a company's overage Financial Strength .


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C4X Discovery Holdings (LSE:C4XD) Business Description

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Address
53 Portland Street, Manchester One, Manchester, GBR, M1 3LD
C4X Discovery Holdings PLC is a drug discovery and development company. It has various proprietary and synergistic software platforms Taxonomy3, Conformetrix, and 4Sight. Taxonomy3 is a novel in silico platform technology that utilizes proprietary ground-breaking mathematical algorithms to perform complex multivariate analysis of genetic data. Conformetrix enables rational, accelerated 4D structural drug design using experimental data rather than theoretical data. The 4Sight allows its research scientists to view, understand and interrogate the complex, multidimensional molecular shape data of drug molecules.

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